Lu Ming

Chapter 142 What is good
The site selection conditions for the farm are actually very simple: no salty land along the coast, nor land close to the central mountain range: either solid rock or rocky rock under the topsoil.Therefore, the slightly acidic alluvial land in the middle of the plain, which is barely considered fertile, is the first choice.

Considering the vital power supply, the address is naturally ready to be revealed: on the other side of the kiln area, a little upstream.

The location of the new farm is very close to the kiln area. As long as a power line is pulled over, the problems of raising water for irrigation and charging equipment can be solved. Of course, there is another prerequisite for irrigation, which is to repair the water conservancy.

Liang Letian only planned 200 mu of land for the farm at the beginning, because he was worried about water conservancy issues.The land of the farm is located a little upstream of the kiln area, and a tributary of the Xingang River flows through the periphery, which is just used for irrigation, and there is no need to worry about the industrial sewage in the kiln area.

However, the Daxi River in Tainan has a violent period of 3 months every year. The water volume in the summer flood period and the winter trickle period is very different, so Liang Letian dare not take it lightly. He allocated 300 of the 200 warriors. Nowadays, this tributary is being refurbished - clearing, digging, building water storage stations along the way, and irrigation of various diversion canals.
There is no vegetation to be seen around the farm now. Adhering to the usual style of travelling, the local people who worked in the Madou Club started a large-scale expansion of the "rotten land" campaign on the other side of the Xingang River.

The remaining 100 people on the farm have basically cleared 200 acres of land these days: the forest was cut down and sent to the opposite bank, all the roots and rocks in the field were dug out, and the rest of the low vegetation was all felled and exposed to the sun. A few days later, it was burned to ashes and then sprinkled into the soil as fertilizer.

When Liang Letian and the others came to the farm in electric tricycles, the first flood irrigation after leveling was being carried out, and the water pumps were continuously pumping water into the newly built ditches.The newly opened land does not consider the yield at all, especially now that there is no fertilizer and pesticide, the first task now is weeding.

After the first flood irrigation, within a few days, the grass seeds catalyzed by the heat will emerge when the ground is burned. At that time, the big office promised Liang Letian that their electric tractors are expected to arrive, just in time for plowing, and will The new grass is killed in the ground.

Then continue flooding and plowing. This unpretentious, brutal, but effective work that does not require pesticides will be repeated once or twice depending on the situation, until the number of weeds that are trapped is reduced to a tolerable level.

The next step is to plant the seeds.

Taiwan's climate is warm all year round, Taipei is warm and humid, and Tainan is dry and warm.Even in the Little Ice Age, the coldest winter climate in Tainan never fell below 15°C; so common grains can now be sown.

Of course, the people across the world will not grow rice in the foreseeable long period of time.

Rice is a kind of stuff that needs high input to produce high output.With good seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides in place, it is not a dream to produce 1500 jin per mu; if you have good farming facilities and import some super hybrids from the druids of later generations, it is also possible to produce [-] jin per mu.

Of course, the hybrids don’t taste good, but that’s not important—the Chikan people who smile when they see greasy meat don’t care about the taste of rice.

Cough, the above is all a dream.

Good seeds, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides are not available in the cross-country at present, so the rich and handsome rice is not handsome, just like the rich second generation who left the luxury car, the beauty and the father. One hundred catties, Liang Letian probably will burn incense.

Therefore, honestly planting some soybeans first to explore the way is the kingly way.

Soybean belongs to the small flower with its own flow - natural nitrogen fixation, so in the eyes of the impoverished Liang Letian, soybean is the best pioneer.

First plant a season of soybeans, which will definitely require crazy manual weeding N times, and then after finding out the local soil, fertilizer and climate conditions, the farm will then launch potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn. Three kinds of explosive population killers, combined with various seafood side effects Food, this is the correct route to solve food self-sufficiency across the regime.

As for the rice, as long as Hangzhou is still the water transportation terminal, the few rice that can be eaten by the officials and gentlemen is not a problem. Isn’t there Taicang Bailiang, the emperor loves to eat it, and the officials also squat here, wandering around every day, luxurious and lustful, Hope it doesn't look like a gentleman.

Of course, there is another important reason for not growing rice: malaria.

Here we want to focus on the cruelty of malaria.

Malaria originated in Africa and is a severe infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes. It is commonly known as pendulum, fever, and cold fever. In the 17th century, malaria was a terminal illness.

Smallpox, plague, and malaria are the same level of killers, but malaria is more durable than the former—after smallpox has long been extinct, malaria still infects more than 2 million people, and more than 100 million people die directly and indirectly from malaria every year .

Europeans began to immigrate as early as the 15th century after discovering America, but no one cares about Africa, which is close at hand-malaria.

Until 1870, Europeans controlled less than 10% of the African land, and the vast interior of Africa could not go deep - malaria.

After the Aryans who came running from the sand pile conquered India, they defined the dark-skinned aborigines as "untouchables" - malaria.

Therefore, malaria, like smallpox plague, is a disease that has been profoundly affecting the course of human history.

During tens of millions of years of confrontation, human beings were forced to evolve biological weapons such as thalassemia and multiple births to resist malaria: twins in the African indigenous areas of later generations have a much higher probability of multiple births than other populations.

A small number of Banda slaves can live for a longer period of time in the terrifying logging environment of the big officials, because they are mildly anemic and are genetic carriers of thalassemia: thalassemia originated in Africa, and has been distributed along tropical South Asia to In the hot and humid areas of Fujian and Guangdong, this is consistent with the map of malaria transmission. There are 3000 million carriers of the thalassemia gene in later generations.

However, these passive resistances are not the solution after all. Mutant genes with huge side effects such as thalassemia can only ensure that about one percent of mildly ill individuals live to the age of leaving offspring, so that the population will not be wiped out.As for the wildly contagious malaria, in the 17th century, it was still the culprit that killed a large number of indigenous people in the tropics efficiently. It is not without reason that Europeans did not approach the interior of Africa until they discovered the bark of the cinchona tree.

Travelers are too aware of the power of malaria.

Since the day of the occupation of Dayuan, burning vegetation, burying stagnant water, and building drainage systems are necessary prerequisites for territorial expansion, and they have never changed.

Prevention is more important than cure, everyone knows this, besides, the cross-travelers will not use medicine to treat indigenous malaria.

There is a big ethical issue here: Who should be treated or not?

Medicines are limited, and the number of people who will be sent to senior officials will increase geometrically in the future. Once malaria prevention and treatment is not done well, there will be many sick people waiting there, can they be cured?
If there is one, there are two, which one deserves to die?
Therefore, the time-traveling crowd did not focus on drug treatment from the very beginning.In addition to keeping a small amount of stock for personal use, investing a lot of resources in the development of "rotten land" mosquito-free areas is the right way for everyone to benefit.

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